News — Urban Contemporary Art

This week marks the beginning of Art Basel Miami Beach. A week of growing satellite fairs, pop-up shows, parties and live art performances that makes for the largest art fair event in the United States. Galleries, artists, and art collectors come from all over the globe to participate in this weeklong art experience. Freeway Editions is excited to be participating this year and we would like to highlight some of the more popular fairs and events going on now through December 7th.

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Kai is originally from Los Angeles and now lives and works between Paris and LA. Kai Aspire is working in the 21st century a time where people are inundated with imagery even more consistently. He takes images from popular culture and advertisements and appropriates their messages into the format of street art. He has taken Warholian concepts and turned them into an in your face socio-economic observation that truly compels the viewer to not only observe the art but think about a specific message, to reflect inward.
Residing in two of the world’s largest and most expensive cities has allowed Kai to...

The holidays are here and Freeway Editions has hand selected a special collection of unique prints to give to the art lovers in your life! We have built lasting relationships with some of the most prominent international contemporary artists and from these relationships come collaborations to create exclusive pieces. Our artists make screen prints and hand-painted pieces in our Los Angeles studio and then work with our printers through every step of the printmaking process. Each artist handles the print through all levels of production, from designing, stencil making, actual printing and to finally hand-painting details, signing and numbering. This...

Freeway Editions is featuring contemporary artist Rimi Yang and her lovely whimsy painted prints. Rimi Yang is a Korean artist who was born and raised in Osaka, Japan. Yang moved to L.A. in the early 90’s to attend school and study art and since she has been living and working in Los Angeles fostering her artistic voice. Yang is known for her intense enthusiasm for vibrant color, which is manifested in both her figurative and her abstract paintings. She celebrates the chaotic duality in life through her art; she revels in the confusions created by mankind trying to...

In October Freeway Editions wrote about urban contemporary artist Rero and his simplistic yet powerful approach to merging text and imagery. This month Rero has been here in Los Angeles working in our studios on both new hand painted screen prints for the HPM series as well as new artworks for his upcoming solo exhibition in 2015. 

"For this new project, Rero decided to focus his theme on the social and urban partitioning found in our societies and more specifically around the concept of the GATED COMMUNITY. This project will take...